Basketball Teamwork Quotes

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. ~ Phil Jackson

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues. ~ Pat Summitt

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. ~ Michael Jordan

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! ~ Michael Jordan

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do ~ Mike Krzyzewski

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. ~ Bill Russell

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught. ~ Pat Summitt

The enemy of teamwork is individualism. As a team, the whole has to be greater than the sum of every individual part. The only way to do that is to work together. You can go a lot farther pulling together than you can with individual people pulling separately. ~ Jeff Duke

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well. ~ Kobe Bryant

If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build a hospital in Congo. It started in 1997, and 10 years later I was able to unveil the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, named after my mother, in my hometown outside of Kinshasa. It was such a blessing. ~ Dikembe Mutombo

Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight. ~ Pearl Zhu

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas. ~ Kevin Durant

Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next tournament, but never a time to give up. ~ David Dunham

And I didn't fall in love with the game of basketball just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it Because I got guys like this, Like these guys every single day That push me to be the best player I can be. ~ Kevin Durant

The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible ( ... ) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals. ~ Isaac Asimov

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not. ~ Russell Westbrook

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you. ~ John Wooden

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited. ~ Ice Cube

Get away from my house. What do you want? ~ Shaquille O'Neal

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. ~ Don Meyer

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. ~ Patrick Lencioni

When Batty got back home from walking the dogs, there were teenagers lounging all over the place, some left over from the basketball game, some arriving for the birthday dinner, some who fit into both categories. For once, she hardly cared, too delighted to see that Oliver's sleek car was no longer in the driveway. Hoping that he was gone forever, she rushed into the house and ended up in the kitchen, where dinner preparations were in full swing. Mr. Penderwick was chopping up vegetables for quesadillas, Rosalind was pulling a cake out of the oven, Jeffrey was shredding cheese, and Iantha was cooking up small, plain cheese quesadillas for Lydia, who was to be fed before the big dinner got rolling. Then there were the non-workers: Lydia in her high chair, wearing both her crown and her lamb bib, her new pink rabbit beside her; Jane sitting cross-legged on the floor, in everyone's way; Ben, strutting around, showing off his new Celtics T-shirt; and Asimov, sticking close to Jeffrey, hoping for falling cheese. ~ Jeanne Birdsall

United a herd is an army; divided a herd is fair game. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters. ~ Ansel Elgort

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things. ~ Allen Iverson

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old. ~ Julius Erving

Do your work, but do your thing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. ~ William Arthur Ward

Dressed in a white labcoat over jeans and a pink buttoned blouse, Liza was in her late fifties, and was tall enough that she was very tired of answering whether or not she'd played basketball in school. It was fortunate her clients were, for the most part, dead - as that was the only type of person who didn't seem to bother her. ~ Brandon Sanderson

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking. ~ Hugh Downs

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards. ~ Bill Walton

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness ~ Tom Izzo

Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down. ~ Sarah Dessen

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing. ~ Thomas Peterffy

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball. ~ Kendrick Lamar

You tried and failed, so what? I failed today too but hey, lets try again. ~ Augustine T Bensah

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that. ~ Iggy Pop

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play. ~ John Edgar Wideman

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork. ~ Yohji Yamamoto

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention. ~ Charles Barkley

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else? ~ Laszlo Bock

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team. ~ Mark E. Hyman

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

You are either supporting the vision or supporting division ~ Saji Ijiyemi

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win ~ John Beilein

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist. ~ Allan Sloan

Swish, the net sounded like the blast of a cannon, signaling the game was tied at 64. Dave then saw the second shot in his mind before even going into his pre-shot routine. The ball tickled the front rim, brushed against the backboard, and then dropped through the net. The home crowd erupted as Dave backpedaled toward the opposing rim. Central High attempted a last-second shot that fell short into Breslin's hands. The fans rushed onto the floor as the number two train came roaring into the station, bringing Dave back from his glorious past back into the oppressive heat of the present. ~ Phil Wohl

I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried. ~ Dennis Rodman

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one. ~ Ashley Judd